There’s so much that has changed in our community in the last year or two. It’s difficult sometimes to wrap our minds around what has happened just since last September, much less the other change…
TEN YEARS AGO
A mystery survey was sent to random island residents, regarding Gilchrist Avenue parking? Who sent it? And why?
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
A group that included Robert Johnson, siste…
Gulf Coast Writers Association Inc. (GWCA), Southwest Florida’s 28-year-old meeting ground for writers, editors and their associates, announced today that Leoma Lovegrove, internationally-known ar…
FIVE YEARS AGO
Was it red tide or Vibrio vulnificus that was making young stomachs upset, or back-to-school jitters? Either way, we had both.
TEN YEARS AGO
South Beach was missing three o…
There’s a little-known memorial in Boca Grande that is about to get some much-needed love and care. It is the Veterans’ Memorial at the corner of Gilchrist and 5th St., by the entrance to The Gasp…
In Cape Haze, just behind the Ace Hardware and Cool Pickle in Paradise restaurant, a 300-foot radio tower that most see, but few pay attention to, peeks out of the woods.
The tower, with its b…
FIVE YEARS AGO
Crowder Gulf, a name we know and love from Hurricane Ian cleanup, was on our beaches cleaning up dead fish from red tide.
TEN YEARS AGO
The first cars went over the new cen…
FIVE YEARS AGO
PJ’s Seagrille and The Grapevine were officially out of business.
TEN YEARS AGO
Kathy Banson-Verrico was named as the new GIBA director. The pipes were smokin’ in some isla…
Tuesday, July 18 was the beginning of the end for two pieces of Cape Haze Peninsula’s history. The former home of Mike Schworm was dismantled and taken down to the ground, while Eunice Albritton’s…
Did you really think it wouldn’t be back? Ha ha, ho ho, hee hee, you must belong in the maison de fous!
The Temptation martini sign, destroyed during Hurricane Ian, is finally put back together…
